A place to find and suggest books for children with autism, and to discuss autism and reading comprehension.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Detective Little Boy Blue

Have I mentioned that my eleven year old likes nursery rhymes? (Oh, only about a dozen times or so . . . )Since I strongly advocate taking an interest and streeetchiiiingit, I'm trying to practice what I preach here.Yes, Nursery Rhyme Comics and Detective Blue may skewa bit young for my son, but I don't think he's ready forJasper Fforde's The Big Over Easy yet.And he sure glommed on to Detective Blue fast, quickly spotting all the other nursery rhymes hidden in this narrativeof the eponymous cerulean rhyme child who has grown into trench coated fedora wearing missing person case solving.This is graphic novel lite with big panels and big letters.There's enough silly stuff going on here to keep the interestof older kids, but the narrative is straight forward with nohidden subtexts. This will be a good match for most kidsage four and up-how far up depends on how much theylike being silly about nursery rhymes.-Spectrum Mom

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I'm the mother of two boys. My twelve year old was diagnosed with PDD-NOS at age two. Reading is a huge big happy place for me. But I couldn't find
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